Quotes of: Human-progress Keyword

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

Octavio Paz

I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

Patrick Wang

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

Robert Harris

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

Robert Morgan

There's something that's very human about 'Warriorv that brings you out. You're watching the movie and, yeah, there's fighting - there's a tournament at the end of the movie - but it takes a long time to get to know these people.

Tom Hardy

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

Walter Lippmann

In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.

Will Patton

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

Marjane Satrapi

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Soren Kierkegaard

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's An...

Caterina Scorsone

The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

David Suzuki

In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold t...

Iyanla Vanzant

Li Mu Bai: [to Yu Shu Lien] Crouching tigers and hidden dragons are in the underworld... but so are human feelings.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Police: Are you classified as human? Korben Dallas: Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

The Fifth Element

Marlin: I can't read human. Dory: Then we need to find a fish that can read this. Hey, look! Sharks!

Finding Nemo

Simon Bishop: If you stare at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

As Good as It Gets

Arif: [on the alien planet, Gora, along with other humans] Everybody speaks Turkish, I don't understand who is a Turk and who's not.

G.O.R.A.

Rob: You think sex is a basic human right? Marie De Salle: Hell yeah, yeah.

High Fidelity

Louis: Vampires pretending to be humans, pretending to be vampires. Claudia: How avant-garde.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Brand: You might have to decide between seeing your children again and the future of the human race.

Interstellar

Dave Boyle: Maybe some day you forget what it's like to be human and maybe then, it's ok.

Mystic River